1 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:06,360 Hello and welcome to the Arise Church Podcast. 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:09,480 We are so glad you're here and want to thank you for joining us 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,520 today for the audio version of our Sunday morning message. 4 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,920 We want to invite you to join us in person at our Sunday morning 5 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:18,320 celebration every Sunday at 10 AM. 6 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:22,040 We are located on Old Jenks Rd. in Apex, NC. 7 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:24,040 Of course. All right, if you have a Bible, 8 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:25,680 let's grab it. Let's get into the Word. 9 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:28,600 I'm going to have to tighten this and go as fast as possible, 10 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:33,560 but if you'll go to first Samuel, actually why don't y'all 11 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:37,640 go to First Chronicles 13 and I'll just summarize for Samuel. 12 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:41,080 But First Chronicles chapter 13 Chronicles is in the Old 13 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:43,840 Testament. Sometimes people get it confused 14 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:45,800 with Corinthians, which is in the New Testament. 15 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:49,080 But First Chronicles Old Testament verse or chapter 13. 16 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,320 As you turn there, I want to talk about today the Tabernacle 17 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:56,680 of David, the Tabernacle of David. 18 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:02,520 And I want to start by kind of giving you a quick overview from 19 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:05,840 first Samuel chapter 4, which is where I was going to have you 20 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:08,840 turn. But in this instance, this arc 21 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:12,880 of God, which a couple weeks ago when I was talking about the 22 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:17,240 glory of God and the Tabernacle and how the ark of God was just 23 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:22,600 beyond the veil and the holy of holies, that really furnish 24 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:26,360 meant that furnish furnishing that piece of furniture which 25 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:29,600 was like a wooden box, and inside of it had all kinds of 26 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:31,400 things that God said should be in there. 27 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:35,840 But it represented the presence of God, represented the presence 28 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:38,080 of the Lord. So wherever that was, the 29 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:41,600 presence of God was, well, in first Samuel chapter 4, that was 30 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:47,920 taken captive. They lost it, they lost it. 31 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:53,320 Israel lost the presence of God, God's chosen people, the ones 32 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:55,840 whom he said, I want to dwell with you, I want to be with you. 33 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,560 They've been on this whole journey coming out of Egypt and 34 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:00,800 then the promised land. They have the presence of the 35 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:02,640 Lord. God gives them their promises 36 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:06,960 and they lost it. They lost it. 37 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:08,800 Have you ever felt like you lost it? 38 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:15,120 Any Christian who has been in this for any amount of time, I'm 39 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:17,080 sorry. You may be as holy, as holy as 40 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:21,960 holy could be, but at some point you probably lost him. 41 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:26,800 And maybe it wasn't taken captive, but maybe you just 42 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:30,280 yourself got distant or somehow you found yourself in this 43 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:32,080 place. Well, the children of Israel 44 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:37,640 lost the presence of the Lord. They lost it was taken captive. 45 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:41,360 And in fact, in the middle of all of this happening, there was 46 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:45,640 a, a woman who had a child. And because she had had this 47 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:48,920 child in the middle of, of Jerusalem being ransacked and 48 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:54,440 the the ark of God being taken, she called her child Ichabod for 49 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:56,880 the glory had departed from Israel. 50 00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:59,320 The ark of God had been captured. 51 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:06,200 So Fast forward quite a bit. David becomes king and and it is 52 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:10,720 hot on David's heart to get the ark back. 53 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:13,760 Why? Because it's the presence of 54 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:16,960 God. He wanted the presence of the 55 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,280 Lord back. He wanted the glory back. 56 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,880 He wanted to experience what Moses had experienced. 57 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:26,960 He wanted to experience what all the priests got to experience 58 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:31,080 when they had that that that first temple, when they had the 59 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:35,040 the Tabernacle before he, he wanted the presence of the Lord 60 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:37,920 so badly. Most of the Psalms are written 61 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:40,840 about that. His hunger for the presence of 62 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:43,400 the Lord. All that I might dwell in the 63 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,640 House of the Lord forever. That's David. 64 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:54,240 So in First Chronicles chapter 13, David has made major moves 65 00:03:54,600 --> 00:04:01,200 to bring the ark back. And in fact, after some time, 66 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:05,680 the ark of God was in, in a, in, in a certain part of Israel and 67 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:07,960 it kind of stayed there. Well, David wanted to bring it 68 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:10,560 back to its rightful place to Mount Zion. 69 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:15,080 And here we find that in First Chronicles chapter 13, verses 70 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:17,279 one through 8, if you don't have your Bible, you can follow up on 71 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:18,680 the screen. This is what it says. 72 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,480 Then David consulted with the captains of thousands and 73 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:25,040 hundreds, and with every leader. And David said to all the 74 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,840 assembly of Israel, If it seems good to you, and if it is of the 75 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:32,880 Lord our God, let us send out to our brethren everywhere who are 76 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:36,360 left in all the land of Israel, and with them to the priest and 77 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:39,080 the Levites, who are in their cities and their common lands, 78 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:41,440 that they may gather together to us. 79 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:45,520 Verse 3. And let us bring the ark of our 80 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:51,040 God back to us, for we have not inquired at it since the days of 81 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:53,760 Saul. Then all the assemblies said 82 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:56,760 that they would do so. For the thing was right in the 83 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:00,120 eyes of all the people. Notice that, For the thing was 84 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:02,680 right in the eyes of all the people. 85 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,200 What was right that they bring this ark back, that they bring 86 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:09,680 the presence of the Lord back to them, that they could inquire of 87 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:13,640 God again? Verse 5 So David gathered all 88 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:19,000 Israel together from Shahor to Egypt, or in Egypt to as far as 89 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,800 the interests of Hamas, to bring the ark of God from Kirjath 90 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:26,080 Jirium. And David and all Israel went up 91 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:31,440 to Bala to Kirjath Jirium, which belonged to Judah, to bring up 92 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,520 from the there the ark of God, the Lord who dwells between the 93 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:36,760 cherubim, where his name is proclaimed. 94 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:43,040 And they carried the ark of God on a new cart from the House of 95 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:46,520 Abinadab and Ouza, and Ohio drove the cart. 96 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:49,840 Then David and all Israel played music before God with all their 97 00:05:49,840 --> 00:05:53,560 might, singing with, on harps and on stringed instruments, on 98 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:56,560 tambourines, on cymbals and with trumpets. 99 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:00,480 So notice that David, I mean, he is so intense, he called 100 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:02,720 everybody together, We're all going to do this together. 101 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:04,680 And they're worshipping and they're singing. 102 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:07,760 So the Lord and they, they're, they're, they're, they're, they 103 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:11,200 have symbols and they have tambourines because they weren't 104 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:14,320 forbidden at that time. And those are forbidden in our 105 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:15,720 sanctuary. But you know, they had 106 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:20,400 tambourines just, unless someone was like, oh, thank you, Lord 107 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:25,520 Pastor gave me permission. Please, please, just at home. 108 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:31,520 Do it at home, do it at home. But they're doing all of this. 109 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:37,320 But verse 7 gives the real nuanced, interesting detail that 110 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:43,680 they put the ark of God on a new cart, on a new cart. 111 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:47,640 Now, if you know your Bible, you know that the ark of God was 112 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:50,160 meant to be carried on the shoulders of priests. 113 00:06:52,760 --> 00:07:00,600 But David in his zeal and his his such a desire to to have the 114 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:04,760 presence of the Lord back, he built a new cart because that's 115 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:09,360 more efficient. It's a long journey from Kirjath 116 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,560 Jerium and I'm trying to get up to the hill. 117 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,640 So why don't we build a new cart for it? 118 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:21,200 Honestly, I think the American church is full of new carts, 119 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:26,560 well meaning people, well meaning. 120 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:31,360 I think of many people as zealous for the Lord as David, 121 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:35,720 but they have built new things that God said will never work, 122 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:42,560 they'll never work, they'll never work. 123 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:46,120 And you know, it's easy to point the finger at others, but what 124 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:50,040 things have you built out of efficiency? 125 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:56,960 I know some of us were real efficiency minded and there's a 126 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:00,160 lot that's in our culture right now that's trying to make things 127 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:04,600 more efficient. But just beware that some old 128 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:11,280 things are meant to still work. We call it old school now, like 129 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:14,080 the anointing oil it. I just happen to believe it 130 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:18,480 still works. I still happen to believe that 131 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,560 speaking in the language of the Holy Spirit still works. 132 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:27,480 I happen to believe that camp still works. 133 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:31,960 Hello. There are some things where it's 134 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:36,880 like better not change it. Don't put it on a new cart. 135 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:43,200 Don't put it on. I was thinking earlier today I'm 136 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:45,600 like, oh, do I want to wade into this today? 137 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:48,320 And y'all are in luck because I'm going to. 138 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:58,240 So I was watching a very popular churches youth conference this 139 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:03,840 week and teenagers. OK. 140 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:08,000 And I'm watching these preachers up there the 1st and I, I popped 141 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,040 in a couple times and honestly, I wasn't popping in to like 142 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:14,760 critique, but sometimes it's like if it looks like a duck, 143 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:17,640 quacks like a duck, smells like a duck, walks like a duck, it's 144 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:18,560 a duck. OK. 145 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:21,600 So. I look in and these are 146 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:25,600 teenagers and there's some man preaching and he's got whatever 147 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:28,960 jacket zipped down to here and he has no shirt underneath. 148 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:34,200 These are teenagers. It's gross. 149 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:38,480 No, but in a new cart world, it works. 150 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:41,840 I tuned in again a couple days later. 151 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:45,560 And then there's another guy who has basically, you all know, 152 00:09:45,560 --> 00:09:52,040 like the the like the long underwear that you wear during 153 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:55,280 the winter. OK, he was wearing that kind of 154 00:09:55,280 --> 00:10:02,000 shirt and it was super tight and see through and he's, he had to 155 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,640 be my age or maybe he could be a couple years younger, but 156 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:09,840 somewhere around that and he's teaching teenagers, trying to be 157 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:17,240 sexy to teenagers. It took everything in me not to 158 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:21,720 throw down in the chat. It took everything. 159 00:10:22,680 --> 00:10:24,120 I'm Lord. I Lord, I don't know these 160 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:26,960 people, I don't know their hearts, I don't know where 161 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:30,080 they're coming from. But this is nasty. 162 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:34,600 But in a new cart world, it's working. 163 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:40,840 And by working, I mean it's rolling for a little while and 164 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:45,160 there's all the hoopla, there is the songs, there is the screens, 165 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:47,920 there is the smoke, there is all the stuff. 166 00:10:48,120 --> 00:11:00,880 And it works until it doesn't. Second Samuel chapter 6, verses 167 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:02,520 7-8. Then the anger of the Lord was 168 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:06,640 aroused against Ouza, and God struck him there for his error, 169 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:08,880 and he died there by the ark of God. 170 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:12,640 And David became angry because of the Lord's outbreak against 171 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:16,480 Ouza, and he called the name of the place, Perez Ouza to this 172 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:19,600 day. Why did Ouza die? 173 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:22,800 Because the ark, this fancy little contraption that they 174 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:27,400 made very efficient to roll the cart, didn't have to be carried 175 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:30,360 by anybody. Something happened on the road 176 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:34,280 and it began to fall, and Ouza stretched out and grabbed it and 177 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:38,760 he died because he wasn't supposed to be touching that. 178 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,640 He reached out and he touched it and he died. 179 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:48,360 I remember there was one time where I was on staff at church 180 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:53,800 and there was a ministry that I remember wasn't doing that 181 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:55,040 great. And I was in a leadership 182 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:59,440 meeting and I wanted to speak up about helping that ministry. 183 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:01,880 And I remember the Lord telling me don't touch that. 184 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:07,520 Don't touch that, don't touch that. 185 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:12,520 And I knew that's not for me. I knew that that one's not for 186 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:15,040 me, though I wanted to, I wanted to help. 187 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:18,000 I think it was a the right heart was like, I want to help. 188 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,840 But there are some things that you're not supposed to touch. 189 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:27,240 And you better be mindful of the Holy Spirit so you don't get 190 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:30,040 involved in doing stuff, building carts that you're not 191 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:33,280 supposed to build, being helpful where you're not supposed to be 192 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:34,720 helpful because it's not for you. 193 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,720 And the anger of the Lord was aroused and he killed a man 194 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:44,840 because of this error. God is no joke. 195 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:48,960 And that's why I watch what's happening in the United States 196 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:50,960 today. And there's like a fear of the 197 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:54,080 Lord that kind of like grabs hold of me because I'm like, 198 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:55,960 except by the grace of God, there I go. 199 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:57,880 I. Hello. 200 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:03,040 And so you're like, Lord help me to not error in any of these 201 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:06,360 things as well in haste or in a good heart or being zealous. 202 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:10,040 I need to know the difference between what does scripture say 203 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:14,840 we should approach it and what is the modern day, you know, 204 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:18,240 wisdom of man say I'm supposed to do to approach a thing. 205 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:21,720 And if you're not careful, you'll get under the sway of 206 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:25,560 this world system and all of a sudden you're building carts for 207 00:13:25,560 --> 00:13:29,040 God. Lord have mercy. 208 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:31,240 Go ahead and just say that Lord have mercy. 209 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:35,120 Have mercy. Verse 9 still in second Samuel 210 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:39,040 chapter 6, David was afraid of the Lord that day and he said, 211 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:41,520 how can the ark of the Lord come to me? 212 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:45,160 Imagine his disappointment. He had made all this hoopla. 213 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:46,920 He had gotten all of Israel together. 214 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:49,400 I mean, they're singing, they're shouting, they're tambourines, 215 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:51,880 everything is going. And then you, Can you imagine 216 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:56,880 how awkward when the dude dies, the tambourine, you know, it's 217 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:59,520 like a, it's like, it's like the, it's, Can you imagine? 218 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:01,960 There's the way like you put the tambourine and it just kind of 219 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:06,480 like just kind of shakes until you like put it away. 220 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:10,240 You're like, you know, I mean, it's just awkward. 221 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:14,160 And then poor David, he's like, how can the ark of the Lord come 222 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:17,640 to me? How am I going to approach the 223 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:25,000 presence of God if if he's like this again, he had a zeal about 224 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:27,080 him. He had the right heart, but man 225 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:30,320 did he do it wrong. And he was confused about what 226 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:32,480 was going on. Verse 10. 227 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:35,400 So David would not move the ark of the Lord with him into the 228 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:37,600 city of David. He was like, uh, uh, I ain't 229 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:40,040 touching that. The last dude who touched that 230 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:42,080 was dead. I am not moving that. 231 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:48,600 But I think more than that, he was disappointed, he's 232 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:51,000 disappointed and I've noticed that disappointing, 233 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:54,880 disappointment will keep you from the presence of the Lord. 234 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:01,560 Disappointment will cause you if you're not careful to just put 235 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:05,960 that over there. See that's what David did. 236 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:10,840 It says that he he he took it inside the House of Obed Edom 237 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:13,560 that get tight. I'm like, what did that dude do 238 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:16,920 to David where he's like you, you going to keep it because, 239 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:20,240 you know, maybe you'll touch it and die too. 240 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:23,520 I don't know what Obed Edom did to David, but he was like you, 241 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:27,960 it's going over in your house. And honestly, you think about 242 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:29,400 it, he was like, I don't want it. 243 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,200 You can have it over there in your house. 244 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:36,800 I'm like, what did you do Obed to David anyways? 245 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:40,200 So, but, but, but he's David basically is like, I'm just 246 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:44,400 going to put it over there, 'cause I can't, I, I don't know 247 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:48,920 what to do with that. Have you ever been through that 248 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:50,800 kind of season? I mean, if we're talking real 249 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,600 today, have you ever been like hot on fire for the Lord and 250 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:57,600 then disappointment strike something unexpected and you're 251 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:02,840 like, I'm just going to put that over there for now because I 252 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:04,280 don't even know what to do about this. 253 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:07,600 I'm just going to back up a little bit. 254 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:12,360 Oh, I have been there 100%, 100%. 255 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:14,480 Do I am I proud of that? No. 256 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:17,560 But have you ever felt felt like I got to sort some stuff out 257 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:19,440 first? So I'm just going to put you 258 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:22,360 over there like on a shelf. I'm just going to shelve that 259 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:24,320 for a while. But if you're not careful, 260 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:30,560 shelves, things can turn into years, they can turn into years, 261 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:33,520 they can turn into long term disappointment. 262 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:39,760 And now all of a sudden, you know, you're vulnerable, 263 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:44,240 vulnerable to the enemy. But look at this so Obed enum. 264 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:46,120 It worked out real good for him. Look at verse 11. 265 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:48,960 The ark of the Lord remained in the House of Obed Edom. 266 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:52,400 The get tight for three months and the Lord blessed Obed Edom 267 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:57,360 and all his household. Now it was told to King David 268 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:00,440 saying the Lord has blessed the House of Obed Edom and all that 269 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:03,800 belongs to him because of the ark of God. 270 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:07,440 I'm pretty sure David was surprised, Like, oh, man, I 271 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:08,640 thought that was going to kill him. 272 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:11,079 But all right, blessed him. OK. 273 00:17:11,839 --> 00:17:13,440 I mean, it's funny how this worked out. 274 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:16,880 I mean, he was surprised. Otherwise, I'm fairly certain 275 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:20,880 David would have brought the Ark of God up to the City of David 276 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:23,880 right away. But says David went up and Brock 277 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,720 brought up the Ark of God from the House of Obed Edom to the 278 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:30,240 City of David with gladness. Can you imagine the relief? 279 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,440 Oh, that's what I thought it would be. 280 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:34,960 That's what I thought it would be. 281 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:38,920 You know, sometimes it takes someone else and their journey 282 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:41,200 to reveal to you what's possible with God. 283 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:46,560 Someone else's testimony oftentimes can be the thing that 284 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:51,760 will soften a hard heart. Oh, what you're experiencing is 285 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:58,240 not what I thought of God. I thought God was harsh and I 286 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:01,600 thought God was mean and I thought God wasn't wanting to be 287 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:05,880 with me. But because I see you now, it 288 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:08,160 makes me know, Oh no, he really is good. 289 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:11,880 And what I heard about him before was the truth and was 290 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:17,440 real powerful. Powerful what your story could 291 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:21,680 do for someone else, maybe undo what they thought about God. 292 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:25,920 Or powerful what someone else's story could do for you. 293 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:29,440 Remind, you know, that's who God really is. 294 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:35,000 And so it gave David gladness. And he, he goes up and he brings 295 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,640 Obed the ark out of Obed Edom's house. 296 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:41,600 And so it was when those bearing the ark of the Lord had gone 6 297 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:43,000 paces. So notice this. 298 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,520 Guess what? David went back to old school. 299 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:51,200 Those bearing the ark ain't no cart in this story. 300 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,000 Did you hear me? They took it off the cart. 301 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:56,800 Why? Because he saw the error. 302 00:18:57,120 --> 00:19:01,640 No, don't put my ark on a cart, I'd said, put it on the 303 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:05,640 shoulders of priests. So those bearing the ark of the 304 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:09,960 Lord had gone 6 paces, and he sacrificed oxen and fatted 305 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:12,040 sheep. Then David danced before the 306 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:14,800 Lord with all his might, and David was wearing a linen ephod. 307 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:17,800 So David and all the House of Israel brought up the ark of God 308 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,520 with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet. 309 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:25,720 What's interesting to me as I was really processing this, 310 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:28,200 because sometimes when I'm studying, I'm kind of like on a 311 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:32,120 journey, like I just stay curious and I let the Lord kind 312 00:19:32,120 --> 00:19:35,920 of lead me through scriptures. And I, I, some of you would, I 313 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,680 don't know if you would be inspired or concerned about the 314 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:41,960 way that I study because I kind of like, I just, I just do these 315 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:45,360 rabbit trails through scripture and I just allow the Lord to 316 00:19:45,360 --> 00:19:48,240 show me where they lead. And what's interesting about 317 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:52,120 this is they were shouting and dancing and singing and doing 318 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:55,280 all that the first time. What was the difference? 319 00:19:55,280 --> 00:20:01,600 How they carried, how they how they carried the presence of 320 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:07,800 God, how, how we as a church arise church carry the presence 321 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:09,440 of the Lord is going to really matter. 322 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:14,600 If you're not careful, we'll think that it's the singing and 323 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:17,640 the quality and all of that stuff, which you know, I love, I 324 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:20,120 love quality. But if we're not careful, we'll 325 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:23,840 think that's the mark. Like that's what really shows. 326 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:29,240 That we're doing it right. But that's not how we carry the 327 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:30,960 presence of the Lord is important. 328 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:33,040 Well, how how do we know what to do? 329 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:37,000 The Bible tells us. The Bible tells us. 330 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,080 David would often say that he would he he wanted to come 331 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:43,040 before the Lord with clean hands and a pure heart. 332 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:50,640 Create in me a contrite spirit like he, he, he, he. 333 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:55,360 He knew at some point it the light bulb clicked and he 334 00:20:55,360 --> 00:20:59,440 realized, oh, it's not all the shouting and the tambourines and 335 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,680 the cymbals and all of that. That is the marker. 336 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:04,280 The marker is clean hands, pure heart. 337 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:09,480 Clean hands, pure heart. Clean hands, pure heart. 338 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:14,280 And I'm not against a party. God loves a good party, OK? 339 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,120 He loves a good party. He loves the sound of joy and 340 00:21:18,120 --> 00:21:24,120 shouting and Thanksgiving. But the marker could be lost in 341 00:21:24,120 --> 00:21:26,440 all the noise. Verse 16 Now as the ark of the 342 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:29,200 Lord came into the city of David, Michael saw his daughter 343 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:33,320 look through a window and saw David, King David, leaping and 344 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:36,200 whirling before the Lord. And she despised him in her 345 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:39,120 heart. So they brought the ark of the 346 00:21:39,120 --> 00:21:41,400 Lord and set it in. Its placed in the midst of the 347 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:45,160 temple that David had erect, or in the midst of the Tabernacle 348 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:48,480 that David had erected for it. Then David offered burnt 349 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,640 offerings and peace offerings before the Lord. 350 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:57,280 There's another account of this in Scripture that says David 351 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:01,280 despised him. Michael despised David in her 352 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:03,640 heart. And then when he came back and 353 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,560 she talked to him, she said, oh, there was the king twirling 354 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,120 about and all of this. And the Bible said she was 355 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:15,720 barren from that day forward. And I've always thought we 356 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:19,320 better be very careful how we judge someone else's worship. 357 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:25,720 I think many churches have become barren because they 358 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,960 become judgmental, judgmental even. 359 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:32,560 I get I checked myself even what I said about the man with the 360 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:37,360 the type that the but you know what, all that earlier, you 361 00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:40,720 know, I have to sort out like, what's me being judgmental and 362 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:44,280 what's me saying? No, that's not right, and things 363 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:50,240 that are righteously need to be said, but they bring in the ark 364 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:51,680 of the Lord. And so this is what I want you 365 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:56,200 to see, that verse 17, David erected a Tabernacle. 366 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,440 What does that mean? David didn't do the Tabernacle 367 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:02,920 of Moses. The Tabernacle of Moses was very 368 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:04,840 detailed. And by this time, all of those 369 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,560 furnishings, who knows where all of that even was? 370 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:11,040 And so all he had was the Ark of God. 371 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:16,480 So there's really no schematic for how the the Tabernacle of 372 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,840 David laid out. But for most accounts and most 373 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:23,880 scholars, it was an open tent and it had no veil. 374 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:30,160 So if you imagine if I put up on the platform this tent that just 375 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,360 kind of arced up, you know, kind of pitched right here and came 376 00:23:33,360 --> 00:23:35,960 down and the face of it was open right here. 377 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,440 And you are all looking. And where I'm standing is the 378 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,800 ark of God. That's kind of how the, the, 379 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:43,080 the, the Tabernacle of David was. 380 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:48,880 It was an open tent and everybody was singing and 381 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,280 shouting and doing all of that on the outside of the tent, and 382 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:54,720 the presence of the Lord was there. 383 00:23:55,360 --> 00:23:59,160 Inside of the Ark of David or in the Ark of the Lord and the Ark 384 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:03,720 of the Covenant, it was there. And so David was so happy 385 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,880 because though there wasn't a temple built yet and the full 386 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,920 Tabernacle wasn't done yet, though that was in his heart to 387 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:14,320 do, he was just relieved that I have the presence of the Lord. 388 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,040 I have the presence of the Lord. In fact, look at Psalm chapter 389 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:22,360 132, verses four and five. It says I will not give sleep to 390 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:26,720 my eyes or slumber to my eyelids until I find a place for the 391 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:30,000 Lord, a dwelling place for the mighty one of Jacob. 392 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:35,760 Verses 13 and 14 say, for the Lord has chosen Zion, He has 393 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:37,520 desired it for his dwelling place. 394 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:39,720 This is my resting place forever. 395 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,720 Here I will dwell for I have desired it. 396 00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:46,440 This is David. He's he knows he's like I know 397 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,560 where God wants to be. It's on Mount Zion. 398 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:54,200 And so David went after it. Now this I'm I'm I'm prayerful 399 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:58,280 that I'll be able to tie all this together because David had 400 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:01,560 a zeal for the Lord that I think we're all supposed to have. 401 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,880 Do you hear me like a hunger for that David said I won't give 402 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:13,080 sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids until I find a place 403 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:16,960 for the Lord. You know, I I, I, I can relate 404 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,640 in a way, though I still I'm like, Lord, help me be like 405 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,680 this, because that's whole nother level. 406 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:27,120 But I have felt that for our church, like I know this is the 407 00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:31,520 will of God for our church, for this property, but also for us 408 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,880 as individuals. I've known it. 409 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:38,320 So it has felt sometimes like scrimping and clawing and, and 410 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:41,960 like commando crawling through the muck and the spiritual 411 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:43,840 warfare and all that it takes. Why? 412 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,720 Because I'm like, I can't rest until we see it. 413 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:52,360 I can't stop until I see it, until I see it with my own eyes. 414 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,400 And I experienced a level of this at our church in 415 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,320 California. But I think there are other, 416 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:00,000 there are other levels. Glory to glory. 417 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,120 There's a there's more. And so it's like, you know, I 418 00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:06,680 feel like this Arise conference is part of that. 419 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:10,560 It's like it's, it's taking steps, It's just being obedient. 420 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:12,400 It's just continuing to. Do what we. 421 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,160 Have to do and by the way, this is me commando crawling unless I 422 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,160 look, you know, weird to you, but I'm not going to like lay on 423 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:19,800 the ground and do it. But you know what I'm saying? 424 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:24,720 Like crawling through the muck to get to where God has for us 425 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:30,600 as a church. Psalm chapter 63, verse 2 says, 426 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:35,600 so I have looked for you in the sanctuary to see your power and 427 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:40,600 your glory. The Lord loved the Tabernacle of 428 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:44,640 David because there was something audacious about David 429 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,440 to think like, oh, I don't need all the other stuff. 430 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,080 I'm just going to set up the presence of the Lord right here 431 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,680 on top of Mount Zion because that's where he wants to be 432 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:55,920 anyways. And I'm just going to make it 433 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,400 work. And there was something about 434 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,560 that, though God didn't like the, the, the new cart that 435 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:03,640 wasn't good. But there was something about 436 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,760 David's heart for the presence of the Lord that pleased God, 437 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,440 that pleased God. I mean, most of us know it that 438 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,800 he says that talking about David, that David was a man 439 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:18,280 after his own heart. What does that mean? 440 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:23,240 David was after it, He was going after it. 441 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,000 He was that I won't give sleep to my eyes nor slumber to my 442 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,840 eyelids. It was tenacious. 443 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,680 And though he's he's suffered setbacks, 3 months, he let the 444 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,720 presence of the Lord rest over there because it's like, I'm 445 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:40,600 disappointed. But yeah, after three months, 446 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:44,200 his heart wasn't so hard that he couldn't let a testimony melt. 447 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:45,800 All that hardness, that disappointment. 448 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,360 And he's like, all right, I'm going to go after it again. 449 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,240 Do you hear me? He, he's not some superhero that 450 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,640 we can't identify with. I can identify with that. 451 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,320 I'm like, OK, I can hang, I can hang. 452 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:03,240 I can keep going after it. Dave, the Lord loved the 453 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:06,200 Tabernacle of David and there was there's something so 454 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:10,160 prophetic about about this and who who knows? 455 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,400 I mean, we don't have indication of did David. 456 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:16,520 I mean, David had to have seen some things to know that this 457 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:20,640 was really how God wanted to be long term, that the temple and 458 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:26,280 the Tabernacle were really set up as as one, one, one way of 459 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:27,800 approaching the presence of the Lord. 460 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:30,760 But there was something that David caught that was like, but 461 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,800 there's a different way. There's a different way. 462 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,920 And it was prophesying of of something to come. 463 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:40,280 In fact, Amos Chapter 9, verse 11 says this. 464 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:43,240 On that day, I will raise up the Tabernacle of David. 465 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:47,080 This is prophecy which has fallen down and it's and repair 466 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,560 its damages. I will raise up its ruins and 467 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,200 rebuild it as in the days of old, that they may possess the 468 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,760 remnant of Edom and all the Gentiles who are called by my 469 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,520 name, says the Lord, who who does this thing. 470 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,920 I will raise up not the temple of Solomon. 471 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,520 I will raise up the Tabernacle of David. 472 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,440 Now I love reading about the the the temple of Solomon. 473 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,400 I mean it was glorious and and so much splendor, but the 474 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:19,400 humility and the the the humble nature of the date, the 475 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,360 Tabernacle of David. God says I'm going to raise that 476 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:27,200 up which what was that it was the unencumbered access that 477 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:32,800 people had to the presence of the Lord that even the Gentiles 478 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:36,480 will one day the other non Jews, which is most of us in this room 479 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:41,280 will have access to that place. What we see this show up again 480 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,480 in Acts chapter 15. Read this Acts chapter 15. 481 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:48,160 The same prophecy shows up. I'll start in verse 12. 482 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,280 Then all the multitude kept silent and listened to Barnabas 483 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,560 and Paul declaring how many miracles and wonders God had 484 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,440 worked through them among the Gentiles, and after that they 485 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:00,400 had become silent. James answered, saying, men and 486 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:02,840 brethren, listen to me. Simon has declared how God at 487 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:06,440 the first visit of the Gentiles to take out of them a people for 488 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,160 his name. And with this the words of the 489 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,160 prophets agree, just as it is written. 490 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,480 After this I will return and we'll rebuild the Tabernacle of 491 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,000 David, which has fallen down. I will rebuild its ruins, and I 492 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,960 will raise it up so that the rest of mankind may seek the 493 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,160 Lord. Even all the Gentiles who are 494 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,520 called by my name says the Lord who does all these things. 495 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:31,960 This is wonderful because you know, hundreds and hundreds of 496 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:38,160 years before this was said here, before James said this, Amos had 497 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,400 said this. And so it's still the intent of 498 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,600 God that he rebuild the Tabernacle of David. 499 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,080 Well, what is it? What is it about this Tabernacle 500 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:49,840 of David, this Open Access where God would dwell with us? 501 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,880 Well, I want you to look at John chapter 1. 502 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,640 And I'm going as quick as I can and I hope you're catching this 503 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:57,880 and we're going to, you're going to see it plainly in a minute. 504 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:03,120 But John chapter one verse 14 and the Word became flesh and 505 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,760 dwelt among us and we beheld his glory. 506 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,640 The glory is of the only begotten of the Father, full of 507 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:18,600 grace and truth. See, when Jesus came, it was 508 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:24,800 God, Emmanuel, God with us. So think about that wasn't the 509 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:29,560 splendor. He didn't come as a, a, a king 510 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,840 with the title, with the crown. He didn't come in on the White 511 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:34,400 Horse. He came in on a donkey. 512 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:38,320 He was lowly, Isaiah said. He was stricken, smitten that he 513 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:39,320 was. He was. 514 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,920 He wasn't anything that any of us would have noticed as a king. 515 00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,120 And yet that's exactly how he came. 516 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:48,880 He came very similar to the Tabernacle of David. 517 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:56,000 Humble, humble, humble and open. We beheld Him, we beheld Him, we 518 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,160 saw Him. He moved among the people and 519 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,840 most people didn't recognize Him as the Son of God. 520 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:07,120 Most people didn't recognize Him as the glory of God, and yet He 521 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:11,960 was the full glory of God revealed to mankind and there 522 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:13,920 were some who saw him. What does that mean? 523 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,960 There were some who didn't have a veil over their eyes who 524 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,280 couldn't see. There were some who's that veil 525 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,960 was removed and they could see like Peter who said you are the 526 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:23,720 Christ, the Son of the living God. 527 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:27,320 To him it was that presence of the Lord was like right there. 528 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,880 It was right there. There was a there was a temple 529 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,880 at that time with all the things going on, going on, going on. 530 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,360 There was the sacrifices were going on. 531 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,200 The priests were going on, all of their work was going on that 532 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,560 the the ark of the covenant was inside the temple. 533 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:48,200 And yet here's Jesus moving in and out of the people all the 534 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,200 time. The presence of the Lord that he 535 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,440 dwelt among us. He dwelt among us. 536 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,840 I want you to notice that he dwelt among us. 537 00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:58,280 So the presence of the Lord, the glory of God that we're talking 538 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:05,760 about, it's sometimes you may not even catch it unless the 539 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:09,920 veil is removed, unless you have eyes to see, unless you have a 540 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:14,840 hunger like David, who says I won't slumber and I will not 541 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:21,120 sleep until I see it. There's a connection here. 542 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:27,040 David saw something of how this would eventually work out, that 543 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,840 he was after hundreds of years before Jesus ever walked on the 544 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:33,440 earth. He was searching for that, He 545 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,800 was clawing for that. He was commando crawling for it, 546 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:40,840 trying to find it. And yet here John is saying, And 547 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,960 the word that came flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld 548 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:47,640 his glory, we beheld his glory, we beheld his glory, we beheld 549 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:49,800 his glory. Who, Jesus. 550 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,720 Jesus. Jesus. 551 00:33:54,800 --> 00:34:01,080 Jesus Second Corinthians chapter 3, verse 9. 552 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:02,600 I'm just pumping you a scripture today. 553 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,080 Some of you, if you haven't read your Bible this year, I just 554 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,120 caught you up. You're just really, you're like, 555 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,440 you're right on track. Just start today. 556 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:11,880 Second Corinthians chapter 3 verse 9. 557 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:16,760 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, someone 558 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:20,800 call that the law. The ministry of righteousness 559 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:27,360 exceeds much more in glory. For I am the righteousness of 560 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:31,920 God in Christ Jesus. OK, so that exceeds much more in 561 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:35,520 glory. For even what was made glorious 562 00:34:35,679 --> 00:34:39,040 had no glory in this respect because of the glory that 563 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,000 excels. So in other words, when you 564 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:46,920 compare the two, one seems like like no glory compared to the 565 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,840 glory that excels, which is to those of us who are in Christ 566 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:54,239 Jesus. I wish we could catch it. 567 00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,760 Lord help us. There's a lot of revelation in 568 00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:58,360 here. So I just pray that your eyes of 569 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:02,840 understanding be open. For if what is passing was away 570 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:06,440 was glorious, what remains is much more glorious. 571 00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:11,320 In other words, when we read a couple weeks ago about the glory 572 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,480 of God that filled the temple with Solomon, the Bible is 573 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,840 telling us right now that has passed away, what remains is 574 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:21,000 much more glorious. Like what? 575 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,600 You and I have the ability, and I'm not saying we've all 576 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,760 experienced it yet, but what you have access to what you and I 577 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,080 have access to, what we have the ability to experience. 578 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:33,520 That kind of glory is much, much, much, much more glorious 579 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:37,160 than that glory we read about in the old temple. 580 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:41,520 That's what this is saying. They're explaining this because 581 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:45,240 they're having to peel away some from trying to go back to the 582 00:35:45,240 --> 00:35:49,560 former, trying to seek after, well, what, what, what, what I 583 00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:53,600 want what they had, but they're saying no, for what if, for if 584 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:56,400 what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much 585 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:57,520 more glorious. Verse 12. 586 00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:02,680 Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of 587 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:07,040 speech. Unlike Moses, who put a veil 588 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,680 over his face so that the children of Israel could not 589 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:13,120 look steadily at the end of what was passing away. 590 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:19,600 Catch that he he put a veil over his face so the children of 591 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,240 Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing 592 00:36:22,240 --> 00:36:23,480 away. In other words, they didn't even 593 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:27,160 see the full glory. They saw the remnants of glory 594 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:31,640 that was fading from Him when he went up the mountain to Mount 595 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,080 Sinai and he met with the Lord there. 596 00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:37,000 When he came down, His face shone so much it scared them. 597 00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,080 He put a veil over his face to not scare them. 598 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:46,800 Well, God's saying that was only a remnant of the glory and it 599 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:50,640 was passing away. And so he, he, he had to put a 600 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,040 veil over that. But verse 14 But their minds 601 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:58,720 were blinded, for until this day the same veil remains unlifted 602 00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:02,640 in the reading of the Old Testament because the veil is 603 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:09,000 taken away in Christ. Notice I said the Tabernacle of 604 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,120 David had what? No veil? 605 00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:16,600 How is that possible? Jesus, Jesus. 606 00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:21,840 And So what we have access to is much more glorious than what 607 00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:27,040 they experienced in the 1st and 2nd temple where the Shekinah 608 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:32,080 glory showed up, where the where the Kabat glory fell and it was 609 00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,040 so weighty. The priest just fell on their 610 00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,680 faces. What we have access to with 611 00:37:36,720 --> 00:37:40,440 unveiled face is so much more glorious than that. 612 00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:45,960 Come on, somebody say Amen, say Amen by faith, because some of 613 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:49,000 us were like, I don't even know what that means for me yet, but 614 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:53,400 I want it. You know, because the veil is is 615 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:59,160 taken away in Christ verse 15. But even to this day when Moses 616 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:02,480 is read a veil lies on their heart. 617 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:06,080 Whose they the Jews. That's true today as well. 618 00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,320 For those that haven't made Jesus Lord of their life, 619 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:12,720 there's there's still a veil. They cannot see that Jesus was 620 00:38:12,720 --> 00:38:14,640 the Messiah. Jesus is the Christ. 621 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,040 Verse 16. Nevertheless, when one turns to 622 00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:21,040 the Lord, the veil is taken away. 623 00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:25,760 Now the Lord is spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, guess 624 00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:30,000 what, there is liberty. What does liberty mean? 625 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,280 There means there's no veil. There's no distance, there's no 626 00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,520 separation. There's no, I'm going to put you 627 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:39,200 over there in Obed Edom's house. Now there's full fellowship. 628 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,440 Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 629 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,440 Now most of us have have proclaimed that and I think it's 630 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:48,400 still applicable that, you know, when God's here in this place, 631 00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:50,760 there's no, there's no oppression, there's no bondage, 632 00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:51,760 all of that. That's true. 633 00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,320 I believe that. But I see this also as very 634 00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,520 relational. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, 635 00:38:57,720 --> 00:39:01,120 there is liberty to fellowship with him. 636 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,440 There's no distance, there's no veil, there's no blockages, 637 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:09,440 there's no filter. I'm not held back anymore 638 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:10,640 because of my sin. Why? 639 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,640 Because I'm now under the ministry of righteousness. 640 00:39:14,240 --> 00:39:17,680 So listen, all of those of you who have made Jesus the Lord of 641 00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:21,960 your life, you now have full access to the presence and the 642 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:26,200 glory of God. You're no longer on the outside 643 00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:29,040 looking in. You're no longer wishful like, 644 00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:30,800 oh, I wish I was a certain kind of way. 645 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,400 No, if any man is in Christ, he is a new creation. 646 00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,480 Behold, all things have passed away and behold, all things 647 00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,000 become new. So now you're standing before 648 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:44,000 him, a new creation. So now you have the ability to 649 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:50,360 come to this Tabernacle of David and worship Him freely, worship 650 00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,720 him freely. You get to worship him in the 651 00:39:52,720 --> 00:39:56,560 glory of His Holiness. That's how we get to have these 652 00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,960 moments in church that just, you can just tell we just ascended 653 00:39:59,960 --> 00:40:01,760 somewhere. We just went up. 654 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:04,720 That's the best way I can say is there are times in worship where 655 00:40:04,720 --> 00:40:07,520 I'm like, I'm not here anymore. I'm there. 656 00:40:07,720 --> 00:40:11,400 I'm like, I ascended, I went up the there's, there's several 657 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,320 psalms that are called the Psalms of ascent. 658 00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:16,520 And it's like there's these songs that we go up and now 659 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,360 you're in the presence of the Lord and you're like in that 660 00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,120 Tabernacle, the Tabernacle of David. 661 00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:27,320 And it's humble and sometimes it doesn't look glorious to man's 662 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:31,400 eyes, but yet to the Lord. Oh, His glory is so there. 663 00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:34,680 It's so there. Nevertheless, when one turns to 664 00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,120 the Lord, the veil is taken away. 665 00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,600 And now where this now the Lord is spirit, and where the Spirit 666 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:41,280 of the Lord is, there is liberty. 667 00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:49,080 But we all with unveiled face. We all, we all with unveiled 668 00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:50,400 face. So in other words, who am I 669 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:55,720 relating to the unveiled? I see, I see clearly now. 670 00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:02,200 I'm not blinded anymore. I was once blind, but now I see 671 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:06,920 I'm not blind anymore. I with unveiled face, beholding 672 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,880 as in a mirror, the glory of the Lord. 673 00:41:11,240 --> 00:41:15,400 Me, I'm I'm beholding as in a mirror, the glory of the Lord. 674 00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:20,520 Or being transformed into the same image. 675 00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:24,840 What image? What I'm beholding, what I'm 676 00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:28,560 looking at. So imagine Tabernacle of David, 677 00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,280 imagine everyone's on the outside and they're beholding, 678 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:37,720 they're beholding the presence of the Lord for us, we don't 679 00:41:37,720 --> 00:41:41,640 have this a wooden box anymore with gold in layer or anything 680 00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:43,960 like that. We, we come into the presence of 681 00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:47,760 the Lord and he's spirit. So now we don't see him with 682 00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:51,640 flesh and blood eyes. We, his spirit just here. 683 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:53,000 OK, That's what the scripture is saying. 684 00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:59,160 And so we where, there's where his spirit is, we behold him so 685 00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:02,520 many times I just close my eyes and I'm like, I just behold him. 686 00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,840 I just behold him and, and I don't have to make up imagery. 687 00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:10,880 My spirit goes there. I don't have to imagine him on 688 00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:12,880 the cross. My spirit goes there. 689 00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:17,200 My spirit goes to a place of worship of him and beholding him 690 00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:21,200 and, and loving him and, and, and, and then this says that as 691 00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:24,400 you do that, you're transformed. And then all the sudden you 692 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:28,240 become like him. And all the sudden that glory, 693 00:42:28,240 --> 00:42:32,240 the glory of God, that weighty presence of the Lord transfers. 694 00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:35,560 And now that glory is not something His presence, not 695 00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:38,560 something that's over there. His presence is something that's 696 00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:42,120 right here. And that is when you're 697 00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:45,680 transformed. Because when you have to still 698 00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:52,400 come to this place to be in His presence, you haven't yet been 699 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,600 transformed. Because when you're transformed 700 00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:58,240 into his glory, Tabernacle of David, when you're transformed 701 00:42:58,240 --> 00:43:02,560 like that, then you realize, oh, I become his glory. 702 00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:07,760 Therefore, when I walk away, He's with me. 703 00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:12,920 And when I get in the car and I drive home, He's there. 704 00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:17,080 And then I sense His glory in the car. 705 00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,880 I can sense it in the cubicle. I can sense it in the delivery 706 00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:23,040 truck. I can sense His glory, manifest 707 00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:24,240 presence there. Why? 708 00:43:24,240 --> 00:43:27,960 Because we all with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror, 709 00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:30,120 His glory, the glory of the Lord. 710 00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:35,400 We're being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, 711 00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:38,600 just as by the Spirit of the Lord. 712 00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:42,000 Are you all catching what I'm saying today? 713 00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:43,680 Oh, this is deep. I know it's deep. 714 00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:47,400 So I know like put on your face mask and go submarine with me 715 00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:48,600 today. We're going a little deep. 716 00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:53,280 That's OK. John, chapter 17, verse 22. 717 00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:55,920 And Tim, if you'll come, and in fact, if you just be Tim, not 718 00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:59,160 the rest of the team, just Tim, the glory which you gave me, 719 00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:02,000 this is Jesus talking. The glory which You gave me, I 720 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:07,160 have given them. The glory which You have given 721 00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:09,320 me, this is Jesus talking to Father God. 722 00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:12,840 The glory which You have given me, I have given them. 723 00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:17,240 The glory which you have given me, I have given them. 724 00:44:17,240 --> 00:44:22,040 We as with unveiled face, beholding Him, beholding Him, 725 00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:26,960 beholding the glory of the Lord, we are transformed to become in 726 00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:29,760 the same image. The glory you have given me. 727 00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:34,200 I have given them the glory I see. 728 00:44:34,240 --> 00:44:39,040 Most of us, we're not here yet. And I pray in the name of Jesus 729 00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:42,200 that veils come off today so you can see. 730 00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:47,680 Oh, I have been living subpar. I've been living on the outside 731 00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:52,440 looking in. I've been living, appreciating 732 00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:59,920 the presence of God, but not beholding to where I become 733 00:44:59,920 --> 00:45:02,280 transformed, to where I become like that. 734 00:45:03,240 --> 00:45:06,600 And something is transferred, something is transmitted and 735 00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:08,840 then I'm transformed. I'm not, I'm not the same 736 00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:10,800 person. I'm different. 737 00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:14,800 I'm, I'm like Moses whose face shone. 738 00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:21,160 My countenance is different because I've been in his 739 00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:24,040 presence, because I've beheld him. 740 00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:27,640 I've taken time to to be, to be changed. 741 00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:34,920 See, honestly, we don't have enough time in Sunday morning 742 00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:39,600 services for that level of transformation to take place. 743 00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,560 This beholding has to happen on the regular. 744 00:45:43,720 --> 00:45:46,640 It has to happen at home. It has to what's, what's the 745 00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:48,760 time frame on it? I don't know, but it's probably 746 00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:52,560 more than we're doing. And there's a beholding that God 747 00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:54,520 is saying, OK, you really want my glory. 748 00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:58,760 You have to behold me. You have to look at me. 749 00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:03,720 You know, it's like a child if they were to come up to you and 750 00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,080 you know, you're like doing the dishes and they're wanting your 751 00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:07,600 attention. You're like, you know, I'm just. 752 00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:10,320 And they kind of take you and they take your face and they 753 00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:15,160 steal it and they're like. Look at me, could it be that God 754 00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:16,760 is? Taking a rise church and he's 755 00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,080 taken us by the face. And he's all Look at me. 756 00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:28,000 You want my glory, look at me. Look at me, behold me, take it 757 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:31,040 in. Stop rushing. 758 00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:32,760 Stop. Stop being distracted. 759 00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:34,600 Stop. Building new carts. 760 00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:45,360 Behold, behold me, behold me. So as I was preparing for this, 761 00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:53,720 it was like our foundational scripture made a whole new made 762 00:46:53,720 --> 00:46:59,240 sense in a whole new way. Arise, shine, for your light has 763 00:46:59,240 --> 00:47:05,400 gone, the glory of the Lord has risen upon you, the glory of the 764 00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:08,920 Lord has risen upon you. How Jesus? 765 00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:13,320 And you behold him, and you look at him, and you, you worship 766 00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:16,800 him. And we don't have to go to Mount 767 00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:21,560 Zion anymore. We just pause and we welcome 768 00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:24,000 him, and then wherever we are, he comes. 769 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:26,480 Wherever two or three are gathered together in my name, I 770 00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:29,000 am there, I'm there, I'm there in the midst. 771 00:47:29,240 --> 00:47:32,120 And right there in that place, the two or three gathered, you 772 00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:35,280 behold Him, you worship Him. We honour Him. 773 00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:41,960 So if you would close your eyes, arise, shine, for your light has 774 00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:44,480 come in the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. 775 00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,320 For behold, darkness will cover the earth, in deep darkness the 776 00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:53,520 people, but the Lord will arise over you, and His glory will be 777 00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:57,360 seen upon you. Listen to me with your eyes 778 00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:02,200 closed, His glory will be seen upon you. 779 00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:05,560 I prophecy that over you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. 780 00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:11,280 No matter how deep you feel you're in it, no matter how 781 00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:16,040 discouraged it's been, the glory of God Himself will be risen 782 00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:20,840 upon you. The days of oppression are over 783 00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:28,480 in the name of Jesus, the name, the, the, the days of 784 00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:36,560 hopelessness are over because the Lord arises over you and His 785 00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:42,000 glory will be seen upon you. All he asks of you today is look 786 00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:46,760 at me, look at me, look at me. That's all he asks. 787 00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:48,320 He just wants you to look at him. 788 00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:54,560 Behold him. His eyes are eyes like fire and 789 00:48:54,560 --> 00:49:00,400 his hair is hair like wool. His clothes are white as 790 00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:04,320 splendor. Thank you, Jesus. 791 00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:08,160 This is the place of transformation. 792 00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:12,720 This is the place where you're no longer you. 793 00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:16,840 You're the Christ in me, the hope of glory. 794 00:49:18,240 --> 00:49:20,920 So I'll stand to our feet and Justice, lift your hands. 795 00:49:25,240 --> 00:49:27,760 We want to thank you again for joining us for the Arise Church 796 00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:29,880 podcast. We hope you were encouraged by 797 00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:31,680 what you heard today. You can find 798 00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:36,480 us.online@arisechurchn-c.com and on Instagram at Arise Church NC. 799 00:49:36,720 --> 00:49:39,880 If you need prayer or support or are interested in learning more 800 00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:43,560 about Arise Church, we encourage you to connect with us online or 801 00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:45,600 in person at our Sunday morning service. 802 00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:47,160 Thank you and God bless.